Future MAGS and CGS Meetings

MAGS Annual Meeting 2026 MAGS Annual Meeting 2025 CGS Annual Meeting

Save the date for the MAGS Annual Meeting
to be held at the Kansas City Marriott at Country Club Plaza
March 25-27, 2026

Watch this Space for the call for Abstracts!

Abstracts will be accepted in early Fall 2025.

For more information about MAGS conferences, please see our conference planner’s site at uwlax.edu/mags.

The 81st MAGS Annual Meeting was held April 2-4, 2025 at Sheraton Indianapolis Hotel at Keystone Crossing. The theme was “Restart your Engines to Renew, Refresh, and Reimagine Graduate Education.” Meeting archive is forthcoming below. Upcoming CGS Meetings

Past MAGS Meetings

Year Location Topic
2025 Indianapolis “Restart your Engines to Renew, Refresh, and Reimagine Graduate Education.” Meeting archive coming soon!
2024 St. Louis “OverARCHing Issues for Graduate Education in Dynamic Times.” Download the meeting archive.
2023 Chicago “Great Expectations: Graduate Education in a Changing World.” Download the meeting archive.
2022 Milwaukee “Student-Centered Graduate Education: Emerging Pathways for Student Success.” Download the meeting archive.
2021 Virtual “Rising to the Challenge: Strengthening Graduate Education During Uncertain Times.” Download meeting archive.
2020 Milwaukee Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Milwaukee meeting was rescheduled to 2022, and MAGS 2020 continued as a Fall 2020 Virtual Conference.
2019 St. Louis “Changing Times: Challenges and Innovation in Graduate Education”  Download Meeting Archive
2018 Grand Rapids “Stronger Together: Collaborations across a university community that support and strengthen graduate education” Download Meeting Archive
2017 Indianapolis “The Midwestern Advantage” Download Meeting Archive
2016 Chicago “Graduate Education Pathways” Download Meeting Archive
2015 St. Louis “Graduate Education for the 21st Century” Download Meeting Archive
2014 Chicago “Transcending Local to Global: Trends in Graduate Education” Download Meeting Agenda
2013 Minneapolis “The Graduate School in the Innovative University” Download Meeting Agenda
2012 Chicago “Transforming Graduate Education: Students and Institutions” Download Meeting Agenda
2011 Milwaukee “Creating Strategic Partnerships and Alliances to Advance Graduate Education ” Download Meeting Agenda
2010 Cincinnati “Competitiveness and Graduate Education in the Global Knowledge-Based Economy” Download Meeting Agenda
2009 Kansas City “Transitions in Graduate Education: Leading Through Change” Download Meeting Agenda
2008 St. Louis “Great Expectations: Managing the Graduate School’s Roles and Responsibilities”
2007 Indianapolis “The Future of the Graduate School”
2006 Chicago “Meeting the Needs of Graduate Students”
2005 Kansas City “The Service Oriented Graduate School”
2004 St. Louis “Back to the Basics: Why Graduate Education”
2003 Minneapolis “Show Me the Money: Funding Graduate Education”
2002 Chicago “Avoiding Attrition”
2001 St. Louis “Ethical Challenges for Graduate Education”

Proceedings from past Annual Meetings